Really? Watching live performances of Bollywood actors, singing to the music, literally ROFL-ing in the house, while munching on Indian snacks (thanks to room mates’ parents/relatives/cousins!) - that ain’t any small joy! Yes, I am talking about watching the Filmfare Awards on Sunday afternoon with room mates while 5000 miles away from the homeland, where they actually took place :)
It all began with the excitement created on Facebook by our friends back in India. Needless to say, we had checked the winners online after the awards happened, but status msgs like ‘Ranbir <3’, ‘Awesome Filmfare was awesome’ create such a longing in your heart... so much so that you announce, while having a late sunday lunch (or brunch or breakfast!) ‘Pleeeease let’s watch the filmfare awards?’ And there it is. The room is a ruckus. ‘Yeah my friend said they’re really awesome’, ‘Dude, SRK was so cute’, ‘No Ranbir was better she said’.. till finally the tech-savvy person (which happens to be me :P) searches the web up and down and voila! Here is the familiar red carpet, the dazzling lights, the extravagant stage and the awesomely clad celebrities!
Well, in confession mode, it was my first time watching the entire Filmfare awards ceremony (yeah, yeah I can hear the muffled ‘muggoo’ :-/), so it was all the more exciting for me. However, the ceremony was really cool. Very well organized (it better be!), with the anchors - SRK and RK at their best - the jokes well thought out, the soft mockery actually making sense (lol), their accurate timing and innovative dressing styles ;), use of ‘logical’ special effects all through the show, good-tending-towards-awesome dance performances by the ladies - and the (overheard) supreme Shaan’s performance (that we missed :( ) Perfect for watching in the *Pardes* :)
The high spot of the ceremony, though, had to be the short film with SRK and RK vying for Rakhi Sawant, wherein Shakti Kapoor emerges out of Rakhi Sawant’s mask - that made us literally roll on the floor laughing, not caring that we hadn’t swept the floor for weeks now! #grad-life Two of us didn’t even see the next part because we were so busy laughing :D Indeed, close to three hours of frenzy, epic FF awards were epic :)
Does one really need a reason to connect back to the homeland? And something extravagant to be happy? And people more awesome than who can join you in your mad ideas? :)
